Christian Grothoff <groth...@in.tum.de> skribis: > On 03/14/2014 02:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Guix is not tied to any particular public key crypto algorithm. >> Currently we typically use RSA key, as you note, but we could just as >> well tell libgcrypt to use something else, no? > > Yes, and my point is you should. I also do not believe in giving > users choices in this respect, as they will invariably make bad > choices.
Heh, right. > For GNS-compatibility, you should use ECDSA on Curve25519 with RFC 6979 > (deterministic ECDSA). OK, then we should make it the default. IIUC, this should be: (genkey (ecdsa (curve Ed25519) (flags rfc6979))) Thanks for your feedback! Ludo’.
